[With a roll of 15, he will make a pillar to cut the malice off from Zuko. If he falls, he'll fall into the pillar and not into the many mouths of the malice.
It DOES float, but it's much less flexible than the magic that he usually has access to. It'd be great if he could make a staircase and get them out of here.
The ice arrow he tries to fire (3) doesn't go anywhere.]
[ thanks to the combined efforts of everyone, zuko doesn't quite fall onto the malice! he isn't able to get up and away from the edge (2), but he does fall straight onto the pillar. ]
[ unfortunately, he slides right the fuck off it and into the malice with a scream (2) ]
[ looks like he's.... gone... forever... oh no... how sad..... they lost him. ]
[ after an appropriately dramatique pause (in which people may or may not be yelling his name, anime-style), suddenly, a sword stabs into the side of the ice pillar (12)! zuko pulls himself up through sheer grit and determination, his head above water and above malice, and then he's going to go for a stab at it ]
The arrows Bradley and Sebastian use miss, hitting the wall. The bomb would have been a little more effective, if it hadn't been for the goop moving away.
Not that there was much moving away left. The water level reaches the platform, the surface being just a foot away from it! Zuko's ice pillar, floating in the water, bobs closer to the platform itself, and his sword and Sheila's bomb arrow get buried into the malice, making it writhe, roar, it backs off! A huge mass of it turned slowly around Zuko, as if trying to figure out the best angle to approach and try to drag him into a watery doom, but...
Instead, it changes tactics. Now that it reached a high spot, all of it goes upwards, forming a thin dome of sorts above them, around nine feet above. Not only that, after that, it forms a tendril, reaching for Sebastian, trying to grab him! The skull still on his neck, to this evil it signals he's vulnerable and can be caught. The weakest link in this group, it figures! So it attempts to reach him before others can react and are recovering from their own problems, trying to capture Sebastian. The plan is to get drag him into the web-like strands above, and dispose of him to its leisure!
[Sheila fires another bomb arrow with a roll of 18, aimed at the center of the dome.
Unfortunately, she rolled a 5 for trying to grab Sebastian in time to pull him to safety and a 3 for slashing through the tendril reaching for him? Good luck, Sebastian. Mom tried.]
[It's times like these where he really wishes he had his magic in these places. It'd be so much easier if he could just grab the group and fly them out of here.
Alas.
He makes a grab for Sebastian (5) and then smacks (8) the tendrils of malice with the bow.]
[ zuko also scrambles on top of the pillar to make a dash for sebastian, but rolls a 2 again and eats shit. ]
[ time to change tactics. he slowly gets up to his feet, using sword and spear to brace himself, finds the most obvious cluster of eyes -- ]
[ and throws the spear, with a 20. he's also aiming to cut sebastian loose at the same time, but i want sebastian to be cool and save himself so pls only count the 20 as an assist if that ]
[ sebastian is not being cool at all and not saving anything because he just rolled his favorite number, a big fucking 1, and presumably fell backwards and dropped everything he was holding while mentally punching himself for jinxing everything with those comments about his good luck earlier!!
bye guys this went great ]
Edited (i needed that screenshot in here) 2022-06-30 22:33 (UTC)
It seems few things unite people such as Sebastian getting stolen by literal evil. A moment of teamwork and friendship that didn't gel out, it's unfortunate.
Not that their actions were futile. The bomb explodes, opening a large hole in the middle of the dome, and given how little time is left, the malice won't be able to fill it up again. Zuko's spear prevented a second tendril to come and try to do something like snapping Sebastian or anything similar, slicing through it, destroying it. Bradley manages to defend himself from the malice trying to catch him, smacking it with his bow. And Sebastian...
Sebastian is dragged upwards, into the net, and it all surrounds him, it envelops him into a cocoon of truly disgusting appearance, beginning to squeeze him, holding him tight and up in the air above the platform, away from the rest, just when things begin getting dire:
The platform vibrates strongly, like an earthquake. It shakes, trembles and begins to visibly move. Anyone off the platform or near its edges would be able to feel wind begin to escape between the surface of the platform and its junction with the pillar, the pressure inside having become overwhelming. Even the malice itself seems to realize the danger, because it retreats a little, enough to give a moment of respite while it tries to come up with a plan of action, a way to stop it since Sheila broke the dome.
[Apparently, seeing teens in danger makes her really good with a bow, because she takes aim with one of the regular arrows and fires a shot at whatever is keeping Sebastian's goo tethered to the rest of the monster.
Then, with a roll of 10, she slashes at whatever eye or mouth she can reach with her sword. But, uh. Maybe, uh, not very well considering the platform is about to blow.]
Fuck, it's about to blow! What do we do?!
[Are there any convenient pieces of metal or something they can use as shields... Help. Also, she's freezing the platform to give them more time which may be a horrible idea actually but they are fucked anyway? But the intent will be to hopefully yeet them up [11].]
[He's putting an ice pillar below their platform (1). At least they can be a little closer to the opening. Or so he thinks. With a one, the pillar shatters upon the impact. They have not gone anywhere.]
Hey, can ya move the metal?!
[Zuko had some sort of metal bending ability here, right?]
[ zuko fares a little better -- he uses his magnets (11) to rip off the section of the platform sheila's focusing on and lifting them up!! ]
[ then, he'll grab the spear he yeeted earlier - fumbling a little but grabbing it thanks to that 13. he makes some desperate slashes to free sebastian and cutting as much of the malice he can reach -- 19! ]
There's something said about the best laid plans not happening. In some way, this is an example of it.
The pressure has increased so much they can hear hissing coming right from under the platform, which has begun to shake like a pot lid over steam. Sheila freezes it, stopping the shaking, chains holding the platform in place...but it won't do anything with the pressure beneath. Instead it's as if it's gathering strength, it bestowing into the platform strength for something, like Sheila has done a few times during the adventure.
Bradley's ice shattered, that part of this sudden plan didn't work. Zuko's magnesis captures the platform, enveloping it with its orange light, and...the stasis is strong! It's holding it a little too well in place, Zuko adding even more strength onto it, but before that it just moves an inch or two.
At this point Sebastian will feel the cocoon loosening up thanks to Zuko's slashing -- still not letting go, but if he could see what's going outside, he would understand why the malice isn't patching up all Zuko just did: the malice is shrinking, gathering as deep as possible in the pit. It's impossible to read any expressions, given it's...what it is, but these are quite obviously cautious moves. It knows things have gotten really dangerous here.
Sheila's stasis and Zuko's magnetism may have been what saved their lives. Instead of the platform blowing up and slamming against a wall or something...
...once the magnesis wore off, the entire platform flew up in the air upwards, in direction of the opening high in the ceiling.
It happens so fast perhaps nobody will know for sure what happened. One moment they're panicking about what may happen, the next the stasis breaks, almost immediately afterwards there's a truly deafening noise like a hurricane, and the platform moves upwards. Sebastian may be the one to realize something happened...because a whole, hard platform just smacked him as if it was a runaway train. It doesn't kill him but still, that was not a pleasant moment in the slightest. Nothing broken, but that's going to leave him aching for hours.
The platform doesn't fit entirely well with the opening in the ceiling. The platform crashes against the ceiling, and the pressure inside the chamber continues, air gushes out, the platform stays in place. Everybody, all four, are thrown in the air by the sudden stop, flying several meters upwards in the air and falling down on grass that exists on top of Van Medoh.
Beneath them, they can feel some very strong rumbling. It's the pressure, not having anywhere to escape through, wreaking havoc inside the chamber. The malice is the only thing inside there right now. Imagining how enough pressure to obliterate a place can do to such a thing...ugh. But there's no doubt that thing isn't getting out of there.
Some of the evil that infests Van Medoh has been vanquished, and not in a very traditional way. Well, what matters is that it has been vanquished.
What matters is that they're outside. It's still cold, but there's fresh air, and not too far away, they can see Rito Village -- a village set on the walls of a mountain cliff, surrounded by a lake. A safe place! Van Medoh is currently flying in circles around it. Now, you must get off this place.
You can see three different ways to do so.
Perhaps you will glide at it. There are a few gliders there, meant for you to hold on and fly. There even are ropes which you can use to secure yourself first.
Perhaps you will choose that...very large wooden crate. Many, many balloon-like objects are tied onto it. All you would have to do is get into the box, and it would carry you, forming a very bizarre way to leave the divine beast.
Or perhaps you will choose that minecart over there. Curious thing -- it has the same chains of the stasis rune Sheila uses. Looks like it has been held in stasis for a while, and judging by the chains' opacity, it's about to run out. The cart will fly in direction of Rito Village, propelled by inertia.
How you leave Van Medoh...is up to you. What will your entrance back to the hotel be like?
Considering she is somehow the least injured person here
Sheila promptly grabs as many of these boys as she can and starts assisting their asses so they can board the crate. Meanwhile, Sebastian is getting fed all their leftover food to numb his booboos.]
The crate moves and floats off in direction of Rito Village. Everyone is inside the crate, all gathered together while it peacefully makes its flotation towards a safe place, leaving behind Van Medoh and its many, many puzzles and malice and biting skulls.
Better that way.
A light begins to envelope the horizon. Maybe it's the sunrise, signaling the beginning of a new day.
And before you know it, you find yourself back in the hotel, in quite the strange entrance.
Rewards!
*The rune you had during the adventure! With no power, unfortunately. It's just a decorative piece of rock, the size of a fist, showing the symbol representing what rune you had.
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[With a roll of 15, he will make a pillar to cut the malice off from Zuko. If he falls, he'll fall into the pillar and not into the many mouths of the malice.
It DOES float, but it's much less flexible than the magic that he usually has access to. It'd be great if he could make a staircase and get them out of here.
The ice arrow he tries to fire (3) doesn't go anywhere.]
1/2
[ unfortunately, he slides right the fuck off it and into the malice with a scream (2) ]
[ rest in pieces zuko ]
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[ after an appropriately dramatique pause (in which people may or may not be yelling his name, anime-style), suddenly, a sword stabs into the side of the ice pillar (12)! zuko pulls himself up through sheer grit and determination, his head above water and above malice, and then he's going to go for a stab at it ]
[ with 20 ]
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unfortunately he is much less cool himself because he rolled 8s for both beating the skull monster off of his neck and bombing the malice so rip ]
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Not that there was much moving away left. The water level reaches the platform, the surface being just a foot away from it! Zuko's ice pillar, floating in the water, bobs closer to the platform itself, and his sword and Sheila's bomb arrow get buried into the malice, making it writhe, roar, it backs off! A huge mass of it turned slowly around Zuko, as if trying to figure out the best angle to approach and try to drag him into a watery doom, but...
Instead, it changes tactics. Now that it reached a high spot, all of it goes upwards, forming a thin dome of sorts above them, around nine feet above. Not only that, after that, it forms a tendril, reaching for Sebastian, trying to grab him! The skull still on his neck, to this evil it signals he's vulnerable and can be caught. The weakest link in this group, it figures! So it attempts to reach him before others can react and are recovering from their own problems, trying to capture Sebastian. The plan is to get drag him into the web-like strands above, and dispose of him to its leisure!
Two turns before critical pressure is reached.
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Unfortunately, she rolled a 5 for trying to grab Sebastian in time to pull him to safety and a 3 for slashing through the tendril reaching for him? Good luck, Sebastian. Mom tried.]
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Alas.
He makes a grab for Sebastian (5) and then smacks (8) the tendrils of malice with the bow.]
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[ time to change tactics. he slowly gets up to his feet, using sword and spear to brace himself, finds the most obvious cluster of eyes -- ]
[ and throws the spear, with a 20. he's also aiming to cut sebastian loose at the same time, but i want sebastian to be cool and save himself so pls only count the 20 as an assist if that ]
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bye guys this went great ]
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Not that their actions were futile. The bomb explodes, opening a large hole in the middle of the dome, and given how little time is left, the malice won't be able to fill it up again. Zuko's spear prevented a second tendril to come and try to do something like snapping Sebastian or anything similar, slicing through it, destroying it. Bradley manages to defend himself from the malice trying to catch him, smacking it with his bow. And Sebastian...
Sebastian is dragged upwards, into the net, and it all surrounds him, it envelops him into a cocoon of truly disgusting appearance, beginning to squeeze him, holding him tight and up in the air above the platform, away from the rest, just when things begin getting dire:
The platform vibrates strongly, like an earthquake. It shakes, trembles and begins to visibly move. Anyone off the platform or near its edges would be able to feel wind begin to escape between the surface of the platform and its junction with the pillar, the pressure inside having become overwhelming. Even the malice itself seems to realize the danger, because it retreats a little, enough to give a moment of respite while it tries to come up with a plan of action, a way to stop it since Sheila broke the dome.
Be ready. Things are about to blow up in here.
One turn before critical pressure is reached.
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[Apparently, seeing teens in danger makes her really good with a bow, because she takes aim with one of the regular arrows and fires a shot at whatever is keeping Sebastian's goo tethered to the rest of the monster.
Then, with a roll of 10, she slashes at whatever eye or mouth she can reach with her sword. But, uh. Maybe, uh, not very well considering the platform is about to blow.]
Fuck, it's about to blow! What do we do?!
[Are there any convenient pieces of metal or something they can use as shields... Help. Also, she's freezing the platform to give them more time which may be a horrible idea actually but they are fucked anyway? But the intent will be to hopefully yeet them up [11].]
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[He's putting an ice pillar below their platform (1). At least they can be a little closer to the opening. Or so he thinks. With a one, the pillar shatters upon the impact. They have not gone anywhere.]
Hey, can ya move the metal?!
[Zuko had some sort of metal bending ability here, right?]
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[ then, he'll grab the spear he yeeted earlier - fumbling a little but grabbing it thanks to that 13. he makes some desperate slashes to free sebastian and cutting as much of the malice he can reach -- 19! ]
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The pressure has increased so much they can hear hissing coming right from under the platform, which has begun to shake like a pot lid over steam. Sheila freezes it, stopping the shaking, chains holding the platform in place...but it won't do anything with the pressure beneath. Instead it's as if it's gathering strength, it bestowing into the platform strength for something, like Sheila has done a few times during the adventure.
Bradley's ice shattered, that part of this sudden plan didn't work. Zuko's magnesis captures the platform, enveloping it with its orange light, and...the stasis is strong! It's holding it a little too well in place, Zuko adding even more strength onto it, but before that it just moves an inch or two.
At this point Sebastian will feel the cocoon loosening up thanks to Zuko's slashing -- still not letting go, but if he could see what's going outside, he would understand why the malice isn't patching up all Zuko just did: the malice is shrinking, gathering as deep as possible in the pit. It's impossible to read any expressions, given it's...what it is, but these are quite obviously cautious moves. It knows things have gotten really dangerous here.
Sheila's stasis and Zuko's magnetism may have been what saved their lives. Instead of the platform blowing up and slamming against a wall or something...
...once the magnesis wore off, the entire platform flew up in the air upwards, in direction of the opening high in the ceiling.
It happens so fast perhaps nobody will know for sure what happened. One moment they're panicking about what may happen, the next the stasis breaks, almost immediately afterwards there's a truly deafening noise like a hurricane, and the platform moves upwards. Sebastian may be the one to realize something happened...because a whole, hard platform just smacked him as if it was a runaway train. It doesn't kill him but still, that was not a pleasant moment in the slightest. Nothing broken, but that's going to leave him aching for hours.
The platform doesn't fit entirely well with the opening in the ceiling. The platform crashes against the ceiling, and the pressure inside the chamber continues, air gushes out, the platform stays in place. Everybody, all four, are thrown in the air by the sudden stop, flying several meters upwards in the air and falling down on grass that exists on top of Van Medoh.
Beneath them, they can feel some very strong rumbling. It's the pressure, not having anywhere to escape through, wreaking havoc inside the chamber. The malice is the only thing inside there right now. Imagining how enough pressure to obliterate a place can do to such a thing...ugh. But there's no doubt that thing isn't getting out of there.
Some of the evil that infests Van Medoh has been vanquished, and not in a very traditional way. Well, what matters is that it has been vanquished.
What matters is that they're outside. It's still cold, but there's fresh air, and not too far away, they can see Rito Village -- a village set on the walls of a mountain cliff, surrounded by a lake. A safe place! Van Medoh is currently flying in circles around it. Now, you must get off this place.
You can see three different ways to do so.
Perhaps you will glide at it. There are a few gliders there, meant for you to hold on and fly. There even are ropes which you can use to secure yourself first.
Perhaps you will choose that...very large wooden crate. Many, many balloon-like objects are tied onto it. All you would have to do is get into the box, and it would carry you, forming a very bizarre way to leave the divine beast.
Or perhaps you will choose that minecart over there. Curious thing -- it has the same chains of the stasis rune Sheila uses. Looks like it has been held in stasis for a while, and judging by the chains' opacity, it's about to run out. The cart will fly in direction of Rito Village, propelled by inertia.
How you leave Van Medoh...is up to you. What will your entrance back to the hotel be like?
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So, that just happened! Is everyone in one piece?
[She asks, but.
Considering she is somehow the least injured person here
Sheila promptly grabs as many of these boys as she can and starts assisting their asses so they can board the crate. Meanwhile, Sebastian is getting fed all their leftover food to numb his booboos.]
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The crate moves and floats off in direction of Rito Village. Everyone is inside the crate, all gathered together while it peacefully makes its flotation towards a safe place, leaving behind Van Medoh and its many, many puzzles and malice and biting skulls.
Better that way.
A light begins to envelope the horizon. Maybe it's the sunrise, signaling the beginning of a new day.
And before you know it, you find yourself back in the hotel, in quite the strange entrance.
Rewards!
*The rune you had during the adventure! With no power, unfortunately. It's just a decorative piece of rock, the size of a fist, showing the symbol representing what rune you had.
*2 Gift Shop tickets. Nice!
*A notebook you found inside Van Medoh
*Zuko still has a goddamn robot arm clamping to his ankle.